Thank you, Madam Chair. The area the Member is speaking about, reallocations are from within all the departments. They would find money from within areas that they felt they could give up. In our effort to reduce our expenditures as well as knowing that there is demand for increased expenditures, instead of just taking that right out of the budget a lot of that was refocused to what is considered to be higher priority items. So within our Department of Finance, there is little of that because ours is focused on revenues and managing that end of it, but within each department there has been different amounts given up by the departments to reinvest in other areas they felt were critical, but there were also sunsets to programs. Within this department, as I stated in my opening remarks, we have reduced our expenditures from previous years by 30 percent.
Floyd Roland on Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 18th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 17th, 2004
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